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development strategies and global economic processes towards economic growth
and development, particularly of developing countries”, 4
Recalling all its previous resolutions and those of the Commission on Human
Rights on the right to development, in particular Commission resolution 1998/72 of
22 April 1998, 5 on the urgent need to make further progress towards the realization
of the right to development as set out in the Declaration on the Right to
Development,
Recalling also the Thirteenth Conference of Heads of State or Government of
Non-Aligned Countries, held at Kuala Lumpur from 20 to 25 February 2003, and
the Fourteenth Ministerial Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries,
held at Durban, South Africa, from 17 to 19 August 2004,
Reiterating its continuing support for the New Partnership for Africa’s
Development 6 as a development framework for Africa,
Recognizing that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to the
poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic disparity,
instability and insecurity that affect many people in different parts of the world, in
particular in developing countries,
Stressing that poverty eradication is one of the critical elements in the
promotion and realization of the right to development and that poverty is a
multifaceted problem that requires a multifaceted and integrated approach in
addressing economic, political, social, environmental and institutional dimensions at
all levels, especially in the context of the millennium development goal of halving,
by 2015, the proportion of the world’s people whose income is less than one dollar a
day and the proportion of people who suffer from hunger,
Endorses the agreed conclusions and recommendations adopted by the
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Working Group on the Right to Development at its fifth session, 7 and calls for their
immediate, full and effective implementation by the Office of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights and other relevant actors;
Welcomes the establishment of a high-level task force on the
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implementation of the right to development within the framework of the Working
Group to assist the Working Group to fulfil its mandate, and looks forward to the
consideration by the Working Group of its concrete recommendations at its next
session;
Calls upon the Working Group and, through it, its high-level task force,
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to contribute actively towards the mainstreaming of the right to development at the
high-level event to be held in New York at the commencement of the sixtieth
session of the General Assembly, at which a comprehensive review will be
undertaken of the progress made in the fulfilment of all the commitments contained
in the United Nations Millennium Declaration,2 including the internationally agreed
development goals and the global partnership required for their achievement;
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4
See TD/412.
See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1998, Supplement No. 3 (E/1998/23), chap. II,
sect. A.
6
A/57/304, annex.
7
See E/CN.4/2004/23 and Corr.1, sect. III.
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